Friday, August 27, 2010

la pereza (laziness)

I have to admit, I haven’t been that pilas (Guatemalan for “motivated”, “excited”, “inclined”, etc) to do any blogging lately. Sorry about that. One of my companeras got like 37 hits on her blog today and I was like man, if I put some time and energy into writing entries and uploading pictures (although it takes her like 45 minutes for around 10) maybe I’d beam like her.

Oh well.

Anyway, I just saw a slug on the wall of my bathroom (this is my last digression, then I’ll write about an actual topic of interest – it’s not that the slug was all that big, it’s just that … you just don’t see stuff like that too often)

My life as a Peace Corps trainee, just like my blogging, feels fairly disorienting. It’s like one half my mind is occupied with my 31 American colleagues and our training sessions, the gleeful joking and quick bonding, socializing punctuated by our earnest attention to the various classes we attend everyday. The rest of the time, I’m feel soaked in Guatemala, ogled by everyone in the street but comfortable with my family (already, thankfully, although maybe deceptively so….) – learning how to eat, drink, catch buses, tell jokes, sleep, play soccer, exclaim about things and watch telenovelas. So I feel like I’ve been getting settled in…..

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Thanks for your support! Please message me with any questions. My work consists of postcards that I manipulate and shape to accentuate a visual idea. I like repetition and I enjoy creating refracted images by layering multiple postcards on top of one another, shaping each layer sometimes according to angles within the picture, sometimes by introducing a familiar color. In my older work, I actually sent my pieces through the mail (see titles for the recipient names). In my most recent project - Winter 2015 - I am trying my hand at showcasing each piece within a floating glass frame.